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most citedA Metal-Free Galaxy at ? Evidence of Late Population III Star Formation at Cosmic Noon

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astro-ph.GA2026

LATED: JWST integral field spectroscopy of a galaxy caught in chemical infancy at behind Abell 2744

Mingyu Li, Roberto Maiolino, Zheng Cai +26

When Population III (Pop III) star formation ended remains an open question. LATED-1 is an intrinsically faint () Ly emitter at revealed by VLT/MU…

astro-ph.GA2026

LATED: Ly-anchored photometric selection of candidate metal-free and extremely metal-poor star formation from the end of reionisation to cosmic noon

Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai, Roberto Maiolino +24

Cosmological simulations allow a low-level tail of Population III (Pop III) star formation to persist to . Spectroscopic confirmation is expensive, so an efficient photometr…

astro-ph.GA2026

Misaligned or chaotic? A strong break of axial symmetry in the local LRD J1025 revealed with VLT/FORS2 spectropolarimetry

Francesco D'Eugenio, Gabriele Pezzulli, Roberto Maiolino +18

Little Red Dots (LRDs) are compact active galactic nuclei (AGN) with unusual spectral energy distributions and broad Balmer emission, candidate signposts of rapid black-hole growth…

astro-ph.GA2026

A Steep-Extinction Quasi-stellar Object at z=4.6: JWST Evidence for Abundant Small Dust Grains

Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai, Roberto Maiolino +9

The rapid accumulation of massive dust reservoirs in the early Universe remains a major challenge in astrophysics. While core-collapse supernovae can inject large dust grains ($a \…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

Little red dot variability over a century reveals black hole envelope via a giant Einstein cross

Zijian Zhang, Mingyu Li, Masamune Oguri +79

"Little red dots" (LRDs) represent a new population of astronomical objects uncovered by JWST whose nature remains debated. Although many LRDs are suspected as active galactic nucl…

astro-ph.GA2025

Quasar Radiative Feedback May Suppress Galaxy Growth on Intergalactic Scales at

Yongda Zhu, Eiichi Egami, Xiaohui Fan +27

We present observational evidence that intense ionizing radiation from a luminous quasar suppresses nebular emission in nearby galaxies on intergalactic scales at . Using JW…

astro-ph.CO2025

First constraints on the local ionization topology in front of two quasars at z ~ 7.5

Timo Kist, Joseph F. Hennawi, Frederick B. Davies +10

Thus far, Lyman- damping wings towards quasars have been used to probe the \textit{global} ionization state of the foreground intergalactic medium (IGM). A new parameterization…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 15 cited

A Metal-Free Galaxy at ? Evidence of Late Population III Star Formation at Cosmic Noon

Sijia Cai, Mingyu Li, Zheng Cai +10

Star formation from metal-free gas, the hallmark of the first generation of Population III stars, was long assumed to occur only in the very early Universe. We report the discovery…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 1 cited

The Identification of Two JWST/NIRCam-Dark Starburst Galaxies at with ALMA

Fengwu Sun, Jinyi Yang, Feige Wang +20

We analyze two dusty star-forming galaxies at . These galaxies are selected from the ASPIRE survey, a JWST Cycle-1 medium and ALMA Cycle-9 large program targeting 25 quasars…

astro-ph.GA2025

A 13-Billion-Year View of Galaxy Growth: Metallicity Gradient Evolution from the Local Universe to with JWST and Archival Surveys

Zihao Li, Zheng Cai, Xin Wang +25

The galaxy gas-phase metallicity gradients have been extensively studied over the past four decades, both in the local and high-redshift universe, as they trace the baryon cycle an…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 3 cited

The Cosmic Owl: Twin Active Collisional Ring Galaxies with Starburst Merging Front at

Mingyu Li, Bjorn H. C. Emonts, Zheng Cai +12

Galaxy mergers play a critical role in driving galaxy evolution, especially by transforming galaxy morphology, redistributing gas around galaxies, triggering active galactic nuclei…

astro-ph.CO2024★ 1 cited

Constraints on the variation of the fine-structure constant at 3<z<10 with JWST emission-line galaxies

Linhua Jiang, Shuqi Fu, Feige Wang +7

We present constraints on the spacetime variation of the fine-structure constant at redshifts using JWST emission-line galaxies. The galaxy sample consists of 62…